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Inside 45 hours of chaos: The brief life and quick death of Trump’s federal spending freeze

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By Jeremy Herb, Phil Mattingly, Jeff Zeleny and Alayna Treene, CNN

 8 minute read 

Published 6:17 PM EST, Wed January 29, 2025

The White House.

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The Trump administration’s biggest swing at radically reshaping federal spending lasted just under 45 hours.

A sweeping freeze on trillions in federal spending for grants and loans, issued Monday night by the White House budget office to federal agencies without fanfare, sparked outrage and confusion – even among fellow Republicans. The impact touched all corners of the country, with state Medicaid funding portals briefly shuttered and programs like Meals on Wheels and Head Start scrambling to figure out if they were about to lose their funding.

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DeepSeek is giving the world a window into Chinese censorship and information control

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Analysis by Simone McCarthy, CNN

 7 minute read 

Published 9:19 PM EST, Wed January 29, 2025

This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing this month.

This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing this month. Greg Baker/AFP/Getty ImagesHong KongCNN — 

Previously little-known Chinese startup DeepSeek has dominated headlines and app charts in recent days thanks to its new AI chatbot, which sparked a global tech sell-off that wiped billions off Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and shattered assumptions of America’s dominance of the tech race.

But those signing up for the chatbot and its open-source technology are being confronted with the Chinese Communist Party’s brand of censorship and information control.

Ask DeepSeek’s newest AI model, unveiled last week, to do things like explain who is winning the AI race, summarize the latest executive orders from the White House or tell a joke and a user will get similar answers to the ones spewed out by American-made rivals OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama or Google’s Gemini.

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New York Times newsletter – January 26, 2025 – President Trump’s first week back in office

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Good morning. Today, my colleague Peter Baker reflects on President Trump’s first week back in office. We’re also covering South Korea, the Covid lab leak theory and a parenting poem. —David Leonhardt

Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office.
President Trump in the Oval Office.  Doug Mills/The New York Times

Testing the limits

By Peter BakerI’m the chief White House correspondent.

On his first full day back in the White House, President Trump vowed to do what no president had ever done before. “We’re going to do things that people will be shocked at,” he declared. Of all the thousands of words that Trump uttered during his fact-challenged, talkathon-style opening days as the nation’s 47th president, those may have been the truest. Tiếp tục đọc “New York Times newsletter – January 26, 2025 – President Trump’s first week back in office” →

Đời sống tăng đoàn ở Nalanda (Ấn Độ) vào thế kỉ 7: đi bộ (kinh hành) theo ghi chép của pháp sư Nghĩa Tịnh

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Khoa học hiện đại cho thấy là sức khoẻ con người tuỳ thuộc vào các vận động thường ngày, cụ thể như tập thể dục, đi bộ nhiều hay ít chẳng hạn. Tuy là một hoạt động nhỏ nhặt ít ai để ý đến, nhưng đi bộ lại đem đến cho ta những lợi ích to lớn không lường cho sức khoẻ con người. Điều này cũng được ghi nhận trong các tài liệu Phật giáo cổ đại, thí dụ như trong cuốn Nam Hải Kí Quy Nội Pháp Truyện của pháp sư Tịnh Nghĩa, soạn vào đầu thập niên 690. Bài này chú trọng đến điều 23 trong 40 điều (hay chương) của tài liệu trên. Tựa đề của điều 23 là Kinh Hành Thiểu Bệnh 經行少病 (tạm dịch/NCT: đi bộ để ít bệnh).

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Trump’s slew of actions at inauguration

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The president ordered the withdrawal of the country from the Paris climate agreement and took action on immigration policy and other issues such as creating the Department of Government Efficiency.

Trump Signs Executive Orders at Inaugural Celebration

President Trump signed several executive orders in front of his supporters at the Capital One Arena in Washington.

“So I am revoking nearly 80 destructive, radical executive actions of the previous administration, they’ll all be null and void within about what, five minutes. Is that them over there? Five minutes.” “The first item that President Trump is signing is the rescission of 78 Biden era executive actions, executive orders, presidential memoranda and others.” [cheering] “Thank you, sir.” [cheering] “The next item here is the withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty.” [cheering]

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The Value of the Truth

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Ruth Thalía’s truth would cost her everything. On national television in Peru, the nineteen-year-old revealed her darkest secrets for a prize, only to be found dead just two months later. A game show called ‘The Value of the Truth’ launched in South America in 2012. In it, contestants must reveal the most shocking and intimate details about their own lives in front of their loved ones in exchange for a prize jackpot.

NY Times newsletter Jan. 18, 2025

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Here are some stories you might have missed this week, curated by Times editors and personalized for you.

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Trump’s Deportation Plan Is Said to Start Next Week in ChicagoThe size of the planned immigration raids is unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect’s goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz
Audra Melton for The New York Times
As Polio Survivors Watch Kennedy Confirmation, All Eyes Are on McConnellThere are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary is reviving their painful memories.By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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Support for Trump’s Policies Exceeds Support for TrumpA new poll found the public is sympathetic to the president-elect’s plans to deport migrants and reduce America’s presence overseas.By Jeremy W. Peters and Ruth Igielnik
The Intervew
Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.The once-fringe writer has long argued for an American monarchy. His ideas have found an audience in the incoming administration and Silicon Valley.52 MIN LISTEN
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Under Trump’s Big Tent, Republicans Are Starting to ClashDonald J. Trump won his battle with establishment Republicans. Now, it’s disputes over immigration, taxes and foreign policy that will test his party’s unity.By Lisa Lerer and Michael C. Bender

Nhiều kênh truyền hình tại Việt Nam ngừng hoạt động

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13 kênh truyền hình VTC, cùng kênh VOV, truyền hình Nhân Dân, ngừng phát sóng từ 15/1.

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Từ 0h, khi truy cập các kênh này trên một số nền tảng truyền hình số, người dùng nhận được thông báo “gián đoạn”, tự động chuyển sang kênh khác, hoặc chỉ còn màn hình đen.

“Theo thông báo của Đài Truyền hình Kỹ thuật số VTC, đơn vị sẽ chấm dứt toàn bộ hoạt động từ 15/1. Vì vậy, các kênh thuộc VTC sẽ ngừng sản xuất, phát sóng trên tất cả hạ tầng tiếp phát sóng”, website của nhà cung cấp dịch vụ FPT Play nêu.

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UNCTAD16: Countries to meet in Viet Nam to propel development in a multipolar world

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17 January 2025

UN Trade and Development’s 16th quadrennial conference is set for October with a focus on driving economic transformation for a more sustainable future.

Default image copyright and description© UNCTAD Photo | The Trade and Development Board meets for its 33rd special session in Geneva on 17 January.

The 16th session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD16) will take place Viet Nam in October 2025 under the theme “Shaping the future: Driving economic transformation for equitable, inclusive and sustainable development”.

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Tòa án buộc chính phủ Hàn Quốc bồi thường nạn nhân thảm sát Quảng Nam

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VNE – Thứ sáu, 17/1/2025, 16:38 (GMT+7)

Tòa phúc thẩm Seoul giữ nguyên phán quyết, yêu cầu chính phủ bồi thường hơn 30 triệu won cho bà Nguyễn Thị Thanh mất gia đình trong vụ thảm sát Quảng Nam năm 1968.

Tòa án Trung tâm Quận Seoul trong phiên phúc thẩm hôm nay giữ nguyên phán quyết của tòa sơ thẩm, yêu cầu chính phủ Hàn Quốc bồi thường 30 triệu won (hơn 20.000 USD) và các khoản bồi thường thiệt hại do chậm trễ cho bà Nguyễn Thị Thanh, người mất gia đình trong vụ thảm sát do lữ đoàn thủy quân lục chiến số 2 của Hàn Quốc thực hiện hơn nửa thế kỷ trước.

Bà Thanh qua cuộc gọi video với những người ủng hộ bên ngoài tòa án ở Seoul, Hàn Quốc, ngày 17/1. Ảnh: Yonhap

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The Arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol

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January 15, 2025By Victor Cha and Ellen Kim, CSIS


Photo credit: The Presidential Office/Handout Yoon Suk Yeol, the lionized prosecutor-turned-politician who led the impeachment of former president Park Geun-hye before becoming president himself, was arrested this morning at 10:33 am Seoul time on charges of insurrection related to his declaration of martial law on December 3, 2024. He is the first sitting South Korean president ever to be arrested. 
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How 2nd-gen Vietnamese are settling into Czech Republic with new careers

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How 2nd-Gen Vietnamese Are Settling Into Czech Republic With New Careers | The New Locals – Part 5/8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY0Y6FzsRHU

CNA Insider – 10-1-2025

The 83,000-strong Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic represents the third largest ethnic-minority in the country. The first generation of Vietnamese were sent here as indentured workers, as a form of payment for the country’s help in the war. Following the fall of communism, these Vietnamese began establishing their own businesses. They made their children learn Czech and gave them new opportunities. A whole new generation of Czech-Vietnamese is breaking new ground, veering away from the traditional jobs, embracing their heritage and showcasing the best of diversity and integration.

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Danish officials fear Trump is much more serious about acquiring Greenland than in first term

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By Natasha Bertrand and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN

Updated 4:48 PM EST, Wed January 8, 2025

When President-elect Donald Trump mused about buying Greenland from Denmark during his first administration, the Danish prime minister called the idea “absurd” and rebuffed him outright.

Now, Danish officials are being warned by Trump allies and advisers that he is serious, multiple Danish officials told CNN. And they’re carefully weighing how to respond without sparking a major rupture with a close ally and fellow NATO member.

“The ecosystem supporting this idea is totally different now” than it was in 2019, when Trump first proposed it, said one senior Danish official. “This seems much more serious,” said another senior Danish official.

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What’s the history of the Panama Canal, and why is Trump threatening to retake control of it?

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By Michael Williams, CNN

 6 minute read 

Updated 6:15 PM EST, Wed January 8, 2025

A ship is guided through the Panama Canal's Miraflores locks near Panama City on April 24, 2023. - The scarcity of rainfall due to global warming has forced the Panama Canal to reduce the draft of ships passing through the interoceanic waterway, in the midst of a water supply crisis that threatens the future of this maritime route. The Alhajuela lake, in the Colon province, 50 km north of Panama City, is one of the main lakes that supplies water to the locks of the Panama Canal and is at its lowest level of recent years. (Photo by Luis ACOSTA / AFP) (Photo by LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images)

A ship is guided through the Panama Canal’s Miraflores locks near Panama City on April 24, 2023. Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty ImagesCNN — 

Editor’s Note: This story originally published on December 23, 2024. It has been updated to reflect recent developments.

President-elect Donald Trump is not letting up on his suggestions that the US should retake the Panama Canal, an idea that has been rejected by the government of Panama, which has controlled the passage for decades.

In social media posts and remarks to supporters, Trump has accused Panama of charging the US “exorbitant rates” to use the canal and hinted at growing Chinese influence over the crucial waterway. And at an hour-long news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, he said the nearly half-century-old decision by the US to hand over control of the canal was a “terrible thing to do.”

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